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Chained victims relive toture, sexual slavery PhD holder among ‘detainees’ More than 300 people were on Thursday evacuated from a hou...

Chained victims relive toture, sexual slavery

PhD holder among ‘detainees’

More than 300 people were on Thursday evacuated from a house in
Rigasa, a community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State by
the police.

They were conveyed in 15 commercial buses after a raid on the
building in which the occupants were chained to prevent them from
escaping.

The house, named: “Daru Imam Ahmad Bun Hambal” operated as an Islamic
school. The children (all male), alleged that they were being sexually
abused.

Senior students and instructors perpetrated the sexual act on the boys.

Our reporter, who witnessed the raid, led by Commissioner of Police Ali
Aji Janga, observed that majority of the ‘inmates’ were chained on both
legs, and others chained to generating sets and vehicle alloy rims.

Some of the inmates who jubilated on sighting the team of policemen,
showed reporters the scars of the injuries they sustained from torture
in the hands of their instructors.

Many of them claimed they are from Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana and other African countries.
One of them, Hassan Yusuf, a PhD holder in Energy Economics,
recounted how he was dragged to the centre two years ago by his family,
who accused him of converting from Islam.

Yusuf said: “I have been here for two years. I just found myself here
one morning two years ago. My extended family accused me of converting
to Christianity, just because I spent 16 years in the UK and married to a
Briton.

“For them, they think they are helping me because, since I became a
Christian, I am supposed to die. But bringing me here according to them
is to deradicalise me instead of death.

“Now, I am diabetic, I can’t access drugs and all the foods they give us here are carbohydrate.”
Another inmate, Bello Hamza, 42, said he was tricked into the centre
by his family. He claimed that his family members were interested in
taking over his share of family inheritance.

He said: “I have spent three months here with chains on my legs. I’m
supposed to be pursuing my Masters degree in the University of Pretoria,
South Africa. I got admission to study Applied Mathematics, but here I
am, chained.

“They claim to be teaching us Qur’an and Islam, but they do a lot of
things here. They subject the younger ones to homosexuality.

“This is supposed to be an Islamic centre, but trying to run away
from here attracts severe punishment; they tie people and hang them to
the ceiling for that, but engaging in homosexuality attracts no
punishment.

”Within my short stay here, somebody had died from torture. Others
have died before I came due to poor health and torture. They give us
very poor diet and we only eat twice a day (11am and 10pm).

“They have denied me a lot of things here. I am a family man, I have
responsibilities, but I am chained here not knowing what is happening to
members of my family.

The police commissioner told reporters that the raid was triggered by a tip off.

CP Janga said: “We received information that something is going on in
this rehabilitation centre or Islamic centre. So, I sent my DPO here to
check what was going on. On getting here, we discovered that, this is
neither a rehabilitation centre nor an Islamic school.

“You can see it for yourself that little children, some of who are
brought from neighbouring African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali and
others and from across Nigeria. Most of them are even chained.

“These people are being used, dehumanised. You can see it for
yourself. The man who is operating this home claimed that parents
brought their children here for rehabilitation. But, from the look on
things, this is not a rehabilitation centre. No reasonable parent will
bring his children to this place.

“So, we are going to investigate them and get to the root of the
matter. We will find out the real motive behind this centre, and if they
are found wanting they will be charged to court.

“But first, we are evacuating all the people from this place to our
station and we will make announcement for parents to come and recover
their children.”

The proprietor, simply identified as Malam, said all they do in the centre “is to teach people Islam.”

He said: “All those allegations of torture, dehumanisation and
homosexuality are false and mere allegations. We do nothing here other
than teaching people Islam.

“They don’t do anything other than, recitation of Qur’an, pray and
worship God. Those chained are the stubborn ones who attempt running
away. Those who don’t attempt running away are not chained. Some were
chained before and after settling down, they were freed.

”Most of them were brought by their parents from across the country and others from outside the country.”

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